Snow Falling on Maple Leaves

The coming apparent collapse of the liberal party in Canada this Monday, if the polls bear out, would signal another post-9/11 fallout of leftwing governments that have been resoundingly rejected by their own people. The reasons for their fall in Germany and now Canada do vary from country to country, and yet the triumphant re-election of Blair of Britain, Bush of the United States, Koizumi of Japan and Howard of Australia should remind most western leftists that painting the United States as the "Evil Empire" for political trade-off's will not work. The British publication, the Economist, was quite excited when the Spanish people voted in a more socialist party that was anti-American after they were terrorized on 3/11/04 and predicted on the cover of the Economist that Blair, Bush and Howard were next in the domino effect of a leftwing revolt from countries that supported and participated in the invasion of Iraq. Obviously, the opposite is now occuring.

This incredible turn of events in Canada was clearly not seen by the Old Media. Once again, they are on the outside looking in and its getting very cold by the minute. The fall of the liberals is a direct result of the blogosphere. I can remember a report on the American blog, Captain's Quarters, just last year that he personally received email from a Canadian government worker that knew of a rather damaging scandal that the liberals were trying to cover up. Naturally, the Old Media was not covering this story in any depth or width and now, the Canadian election is hitting us like a ton of bricks! Wow! Good move by Edward Morrisey of Captain's Quarters for covering this from the beginning.

I believe this is directly related to the War on Terror. I know that with both Germany and Canada they had issues that varied as to the reason for government turnover and with Canada the scandal was a mudpit that the liberals could not extricate themselves from, nevertheless, both governments took a decidedly anti-American tone in their relationship with us and are now reaping the whirlwind of their ignorance and if I may be so bold, arrogance.

There is pause for reflection, however, in that the Republicans also are being tainted with scandals as well here in the United States. Time will tell if they are found lacking by the American people come time for the November elections in 2006. If fortunes can change so quickly as it apparently has in Ottawa then Washington had better batten down the hatches as Republicans may suffer the same fate as the liberals in Canada. I wonder if France is next?